Thick versus thin provisioning — You must decide the hard disk requirements for your server. The minimum requirement is 250 GB unless the VM purchased has more. See the specifications for your VM product.

Thick vs thin disk provisioning — When you configure your VM disk space, use thick provisioning, if you have the actual disk space available on your ESXi server. Using thin provisioning saves disk space but there is a slight performance impact and you must be careful to never fill that disk space to capacity.

Download the ESM VM image

Downloading the ESM software VM image is similar for the ESXi VM and a Linux KVM.

** Before you begin you must have your McAfee Grant Number to download the latest ESM software VM image from the download site.

On the My Products page, scroll down the list and click one of the McAfee Enterprise Security Mgr VM downloads. The number in the download file name indicates the number of cores the ESM image allocates to the VM. For example, file "VM32" allocates 32 cores to the VM.

Click Current Version tab and select the McAfee Enterprise Security Mgr VM image.

The number of CPU cores the image supports is indicated in the image filename. For example, image "McAfee Enterprise Security Mgr VM4" supports 4 cores. You can not add or suptract processors from the VM or change the VM ID number.

• RAM — 4 GB minimum (depends on the model)

• Disk — 250 minimum (depends on the model)

Sharing CPU or RAM with other VMs impacts the ESXi VM performance.

• ESXI — 5.0 or later

You can select the hard disk requirement needs for your server. But, the VM requirement depends on the model of the device (at least 250 GB). If you don't have a minimum of 250 GB available, you receive an error when deploying the VM.

This disk space is for the operating system and does not include the space needed for the database or logs.

The VM uses many features that require CPU and RAM. If the ESXi environment shares the CPU or RAM requirements with other VMs, the performance of the VM is impacted.

McAfee recommends setting the provisioning option to Thick.

Mount the VMware ESXi virtual machine

Once you mount and key a VMware ESXi VM, it mimics normal ESM operation.

Task

Access the root of the CD drive (for CD installation) or download the ESX .ova files from the download site.

In vSphere Client, click the server IP address in the device tree.

Click File and select Deploy OVF Template.

Designate the name, the folder to mount the VM, the disk provisioning setting, and the VM Networking option.

Deploy the files to the ESXi server, select the VM, and set the Edit Virtual Machine setting.

Select the correct networking settings for your VMware ESXi network switches/adapters, then click Play to start the VM.

Using the VM menu, set MGT1 IP address, netmask, gateway, and DNS addresses, then press Esc to activate the menu.

Configure the network interface on the VM, save the changes before exiting the Menu window, then key the device. See McAfee Enterprise Security Manager Product Guide for details about keying the devices.

Linux KVM ESM installation

After you have downloaded the ESM software, perform these tasks to install the software on a Linux KVM

Linux KVM requirements

The Linux KVM where you install the ESM software must meet these minimum requirements.

The number of CPU cores the image supports is indicated in the image filename. For example, image "McAfee Enterprise Security Mgr VM4" supports 4 cores. You can not add or suptract processors from the VM or change the VM ID number.